Howling winds gusting to 60 mph overnight on Sunday snapped power lines, sent boat covers flying, toppled statues at a mini golf center in Roseville and left approximately 10,000 homes and businesses in Macomb County temporarily without electricity.

The high winds also damaged a fence screen near the chipping area of Jawor’s Golf Center on Gratiot Avenue near 14 Mile Road and toppled over statues including a pink elephant made of plastic and fiberglass on the putt-putt course, said Alex Macko, a PGA pro instructor.

“Yes, the elephant is laying down on the ground after the winds moved through here last night,” Macko said. “We’ll get him fixed and back upright sometime this week.”

In Sterling Heights, Ryan Road was closed for several hours between 18 1/2 Mile and 19 Mile roads after a pair of utility poles were knocked down to the ground, according to firefighters. A third pole was left leaning.

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Mount Clemens firefighters reported downed power lines sparked a fire at a garage on Riverside Drive about 4 a.m. but fire crews were able to contain the blaze before it got out of control.

Winds sent boat covers sailing from vessels from some marinas along Lake St. Clair. At the Plymouth Ice Festival, wind knocked over some of the is sculptures but the event continued, according to a WWJ-AM (950) report.

DTE Energy’s online power outage map showed there were about 120,000 outages in southeastern Michigan at the height of the storm, but that number was down to about 84,000 by 6 p.m. That figure includes about 3,700 in Macomb County, 21,000 in Wayne County and 19,000 in Oakland County.

On Sunday night, the largest outage in Macomb was an area near M-59 west of M-53 in Utica, with about 2,700 outages.

Utility crews were making good progress in restoring power and hope to have 90 percent of the customers back online by Monday evening, said DTE spokesman Scott Simons.

Winds should calm down on Monday, coming out of the west at 6 to 13 mph with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Frigid cold temperatures and a chance of snow showers are in the forecast for the rest of the week, according to the National Weather Service. Monday’s high will be around 19 degrees while Tuesday’s high will only be 13.